Rating: 6/20 (Jason: 1/2 pi/20 [He's pressing his luck here.]; Fred: 3/20; Libby: 4/20; Carrie: 15/20; Jennifer: stopped watching; Josh: fell asleep)
Plot: Marjoe Gortner finds himself on an island where some mysterious jism is enlarging chickens, hornets, and rats.
This wasn't a great movie. We all seemed to agree that Marjoe Gortner--while not convincing as a football star, an action hero, a hunter, a narrator, or a guy that a woman would have an interest in sexually--brought some energy to the role. The special effects didn't look as bad as I would have predicted. No, the story itself was much worse. I suppose that would be surprising if it's close to the H.G. Wells source material, but I don't read books and wouldn't be the person to ask about that. But those effects--mostly close-ups of animals--weren't bad. The scenes where big animals attacked people were a little on the lame side--all shaky close-ups that managed to be both disappointing and nauseating. Most nauseating and disappointing for Fred was that we didn't get to see more of the most interesting large animal--the killer chickens. I'd agree that there was potential there and that the rats started to feel redundant by the end of the movie. I would have liked to see more animal variety altogether actually. Surely there were more than three kinds of animals on this island! Actually, now that I reread the conversation we had during this movie, the biggest disappointment for everybody was that a newborn baby didn't eat the ooze and turn into a giant baby. A giant baby vs. giant rat climax would have been a lot better than the silliness that the makers of this came up with. Anyway, this isn't anywhere close to a good movie and it barely passes as a good bad movie. Well, unless you're a huge Marjoe Gortner fan.
My favorite part of this movie had nothing to do with the giant creatures. No, that was a moment when the character named Lorna turned to Marjoe, during a Night of the Living Dead-esque scene where they were fending off rats, and asked him to have sex with her.
Note: I have fears that a reference somebody made to "King Kong's jism" might have offended one of the BM Clubbers. I won't say who made that reference. Unfortunately, the future of the BM Club may be in jeopardy.
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